Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Chicago, Illinois

2,627
foundations with a Chicago address
$4.72B
grants paid, FY2023–FY2025
415
say they accept unsolicited
$15,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 2,627 foundations that gave a Chicago, Illinois address on their tax filing — 2,564 private foundations and 63 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2023–FY2025. Together they paid out $4.72 billion in grants in their latest filing year, and 415 of them (16%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Chicago foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 2,627 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 390 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Chicago, Illinois
Arie and Ida Crown Memorial$55,000$115.2M$500–$3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Paul M Angell Family Foundation$57.1M$57.1M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Joyce Foundation$80,000$52.2M$685–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Circle of Service Foundation$25,000$37M$50–$1.7MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Spencer Foundation$74,960$24.3M$4,500–$2.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Emerson Charitable Trust$18.3M$20.6M$15.9M–$20.6MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Polk Bros Foundation Inc$25,000$19.3M$100–$250,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Dauten Family Foundation$395,000$18.3M$5,000–$19.8MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Terra Foundation for American Art$50,000$15.4M$5,000–$550,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Motorola Solutions Foundation$35,000$12.6M$200–$1.8MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Field Foundation of Illinois$25,000$10.8M$300–$1.2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008$100,000$10.4M$25,000–$150,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Lloyd A Fry Foundation$5,000$9.3M$125–$250,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Coleman Foundation Inc$50,000$9.1M$1,000–$250,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Brinson Foundation$50,000$8.5M$250–$600,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Alphawood Foundation$35,000$8.1M$2,500–$2.1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
William G McGowan Charitable Fund$5,000$7.8M$100–$1.3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation$10,000$7.1M$60–$235,500FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Helen V Brach Foundation$10,000$6.8M$150–$6.8MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Grand Victoria Foundation$25,000$6.5M$300–$555,150FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
McDougal Family Foundation$5.8M$5.8M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Kovler Family Foundation$3,000$5.6M$200–$2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Woods Fund of Chicago$50,000$5.6M$2,000–$170,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002$75,000$5.5M$10,000–$800,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Harris Family Foundation$6.2M$5.4M$5.4M–$7MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • A median grant larger than the grants paid is not a mistake: the grant schedule and the year’s total come from different parts of the tax filing, and a foundation can list a grant it approved in a year it paid out less.

2,602 more foundations — see all in Grantlas

Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2023–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.